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This Day in COVID: July 10, 2020

How Many Teachers Are at Risk of Serious Illness If Infected with Coronavirus?

As the nation continues to struggle to contain the spread of coronavirus, there is considerable debate about when and how to reopen schools. This analysis finds that one in four teachers (24%, or about 1.47 million people), have a condition that puts them at higher risk of serious illness from coronavirus.

KFF

Cities — try to predict superspreading hotspots for COVID-19

Tracking how people move around urban areas can pinpoint where disease might transmit fastest and farthest.

Nature

All the hospitals are full': In Houston, overwhelmed ICUs leave COVID-19 patients waiting in ER

Officials in Houston warn of a potential replay of what happened in New York in the spring, when thousands of people died as hospitals struggled to keep up.

NBC

WHO advance team heads to China to set up probe into coronavirus origin

Reuters

Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa

The Conversation

Pathologist found blood clots in ‘almost every organ’ during autopsies on Covid-19 patients

CNN

How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire

The Conversation

Gov. Greg Abbott warns if spread of COVID-19 doesn’t slow, “the next step would have to be a lockdown”

Abbott has repeated that warning multiple times in local television interviews this week.

Texas Tribune

Lockdown broke my baby': As Meghan Markle admits her fears for Archie, mums tell FEMAIL how no socialising left their children and 'anxious and tearful' - but experts insist the impact can be reversed

Speaking to FEMAIL, five women shared their stories of how lockdown has impacted their children, all of whom are under the age of two, after Meghan Markle's comments.

Daily Mail

Man cuts through fence to escape New Zealand Covid-19 quarantine and visit liquor store

CNN

Quarantine tents set up outside school in Walker County

Large, dark green tents with signs on them saying 'quarantine room' were spotted by several people. A company set up the tents outside the old Walker County high school Friday. RELATED: More coronavirus news from ABC 33/40. The tent display was meant to show off the company's product. There was no actual quarantine, according to a spokesperson with the City of Jasper.

ABC

Anthony Fauci: ‘We are living in the perfect storm’

The straight-talking scientist on keeping the peace with Trump and the hunt for a Covid-19 vaccine

Financial Times

As Texas’ only physician in Congress, Republican Michael Burgess defends Fauci as ‘thorough,' ‘respected'

WASHINGTON — In the course of a professional relationship that’s spanned more than 20 years, North Texas Rep. Michael Burgess admits that he’s had his fair...

Dallas News

DeSantis breaks with Fauci, says Florida didn’t rush reopening

The Hill

It’s Time, Dr. Fauci

New York Times

Nevada tightens restrictions again as COVID hospitalizations 'spike'

'Continued increase' in coronavirus hospitalizations sees governor put bars and restaurants back under tougher rules.

CBS

Continued unemployment boosts will help recovery more than new stimulus checks, economists say

As coronavirus cases surge across the U.S., 'it's not that lots of folks who have jobs to go back to are choosing not to go,' says Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty, 'but there's no work to do.'

CNBC

‘Pleading’ from aides led to Trump agreeing – after months – to wear a mask

CNN

13 states now report coronavirus testing issues, in echo of early troubles

ABC

Ohio lawmaker Candice Keller shops without a mask in Butler County, posts about it: 'Be brave.'

Cincinatti

More evidence emerges that a TB vaccine might help fight coronavirus

CNN

Bail Out the Bars

They're uniquely dangerous for spreading the coronavirus. We need to pay to keep them closed.

Slate

Coronavirus COVID-19 Update: FDA prepares for resumption of domestic inspections with new risk assessment system

FDA prepares for resumption of domestic inspections with new system

FDA

Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.

New York Times

Nation's Pediatricians Walk Back Support For In-Person School

In a new statement made jointly with teachers unions, the American Academy of Pediatrics now says 'science and community circumstances must guide decision-making.'

NPR

COVID-19 can be transmitted in the womb, reports pediatric infectious disease journal

Science Daily

Coronavirus pandemic prompts record drop in global emissions, study finds

Lockdowns, travel bans and factory closures drive 4.6% reduction but dramatic decline falls short of efforts needed to limit global heating

The Guardian

‘It Was Like a Time Bomb’: How ICE Helped Spread the Coronavirus

New York Times

“Give Me Liberty, And Give Me Death!” What the anti-mask messages really say | Milwaukee Independent

Milwaukee Independent

Trump undercuts health experts — again — in schools debate

As COVID-19 surges across the nation, the president is at odds with the government’s top health professionals.

Tampa Bay Times

14 Tweets That Sum Up The Stupidity Of 'Mask-Holes'

Twitter is filled with content about people who won't wear face masks because they basically just don't seem to give a sh*t about their fellow humans.

Scary Mommy

A COVID-19 vaccine may come soon. Will the blistering pace backfire?

Speed is essential, but not at the expense of safety and efficacy, experts warn. Sacrificing either could damage public trust.

Science News

Our Mission

The COVID-19 History Project is a curated archive of the events and policy decisions surrounding the emergence of COVID-19.

The pandemic era of 2020-2022 saw massive increases in restrictions on daily life—enforced by the government and by social stigma—accompanied social protests that roiled cities worldwide

In the United States alone, trillions of dollars were spent by the federal government to offset the forced closure of businesses and the devastation of normal life.

The impacts of these policy decisions are still being felt today.

Some would like us to forget the actions and people that played a significant role during the pandemic.

But we of the COVID-19 History Project don't want to forget. Through our work, we hope there will always be an archive to learn from and interpret this fascinating, disturbing, time in world history.

The Timeline

In order to learn from the mistakes of the past, and give COVID-19 decision makers the credit—both good and bad—they deserve, we have compiled a media timeline from every day of the pandemic.

We have endeavored to make the timeline comprehensive without being duplicative, following the major trends as they unfolded.

We provided analyses for each month highlighting major events, but encourage readers to make their own conclusions about these events as well.

This Day in COVID: July 10, 2021

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COVID-19: Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccines linked to mild heart inflammation but benefits still outweigh risks

Both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID vaccines have been linked to cases of myocarditis and pericarditis - swelling of or near the heart - in a limited number of cases, usually in men aged under 40 after their second dose. Regulators say benefits still outweigh the risks.

Sky News

Indonesia running out of oxygen as coronavirus infections surge

The Hill

Myanmar coup leader says Russia to supply two million COVID shots

Myanmar reported 4,320 cases on Friday, a record for a second successive day, and 63 deaths amid anti-coup protests.

Al Jazeera

Russia sets new record daily COVID death toll

Russia is battling a severe third wave of COVID-19, driven by the highly infectious Delta variant.

Al Jazeera

Fauci says Pfizer CEO apologized for not giving warning on booster announcement

Axios

G20 to warn of coronavirus risks amid ‘great divergences’ in recovery

A Group of 20 draft statement says policymakers are far from ready to give the all-clear signal on the pandemic and pledge ‘to use all available policy tools for as long as required’

South China Morning Post

Would You Get a ‘Pandemic Tattoo’? (Published 2021)

The New York Times

China hosted global project to look at coronavirus in bat populations

Business Standard

COVID-19 and waste production in households: A trend analysis

ScienceDirect.com

Seoul heads for lockdown as infections spiral in South Korea

Another 1,378 cases on Friday as authorities warn new case numbers may nearly double by the end of July

The Guardian

How We'll Know When The COVID-19 Crisis Is Over

Life might feel like it's getting back to normal. But we're not out of the woods yet. Here's what the end of the pandemic might look like.

NPR

Opinion | There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing (Published 2021)

The New York Times

With an uptick in Covid-19 cases, there is growing alarm. ‘We’ve seen almost an entire takeover in the Delta variant,’ one state official says | CNN

CNN

Some Britons crave permanent pandemic lockdown

While the government prepares for “Freedom Day”, some Britons favour lasting curbs

The Economist

COVID-19 vaccines highly effective in most people in clinical risk groups

Those used in the UK as effective at preventing symptomatic disease in the majority of people with underlying health conditions as the rest of the population.

GOV.UK